{"id":19080,"date":"2024-08-29T09:37:32","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T08:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/druidry.org\/?p=19080"},"modified":"2024-08-29T09:37:32","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T08:37:32","slug":"a-good-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/druidry.org\/resources\/a-good-path","title":{"rendered":"A Good Path"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18158\" src=\"https:\/\/druidry.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/depositphotos-forest-path.webp\" alt=\", .\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" title=\"\"><br \/>\nby Philip Carr-Gomm<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s more to this!<br \/>\nThe mystic lifts a hand and describes an arc in the air.<br \/>\nThe detective leans forward and displays the evidence.<br \/>\nThe press fall silent as the scientist announces a discovery.<br \/>\nYour friend in the world of politics confides in you.<br \/>\nYou lie on the couch, and as you recount the dream, you remember a scene you had forgotten, and that \u2013 in its turn \u2013 evokes a memory from childhood.<br \/>\nThe limiting container of certainty \u2013 your beliefs about how the world works, about who you are, what your purpose in life might be, about your reasons for behaving, feeling, thinking, the way you do \u2013 tips for a moment and spills its contents into the dream of your world\u2026<br \/>\nAnd you are left at once both liberated and unsettled. \u201cBut I thought I understood! I thought life was this way,\u00a0<b>my<\/b>\u00a0life was this way!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is a good path. A path of uncertainty, of questioning, of not-knowing, of seeking. Of losing the path and wondering if it ever existed in the first place\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Of opening to the Mystery, the strangeness, the wonder of it all\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Philip Carr-Gomm There\u2019s more to this! The mystic lifts a hand and describes an arc in the air. The detective leans forward and displays the evidence. The press fall silent as the scientist announces a discovery. Your friend in the world of politics confides in you. You lie on the couch, and as you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":18158,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"Order of Bards, Ovates &amp; Druids","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/druidry.org","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/druidry.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/druidry.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/druidry.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/druidry.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/druidry.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19080"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/druidry.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19082,"href":"https:\/\/druidry.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19080\/revisions\/19082"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/druidry.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/druidry.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/druidry.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/druidry.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}